channel plate

English

Noun

channel plate (plural channel plates)

  1. (nautical, now historical) An iron plate or link fastened under a channel, to which a mast is secured. [from 19th c.]
    • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 250:
      “[W]e left the brig at sundown, lying with her channel plates nearly under water.”
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